Brush Cherry: January 2024 Update

In October I repotted the tree into a pumice-perlite soil mix due to a failure to thrive. It’s four months later, so let’s check in.

Brush Cherry: January 2024 Update
That growth on the top hasn’t picked up. I don’t mind, since it holds the soil in place, and hasn’t been attacked by the moss vandal.
I’ve got it on the bench, but I’m not sure what I did…
…maybe this is when I cut back the dead branches?

So it’s good and bad. The good is a fairly healthy crop of lovely green leaves. The bad is that there’s little to no branch growth – everything is staying very close to the living trunk. Looking back over the older pictures, I don’t think this has ever grown much away from it’s initial shape without me cutting it back. Referencing the original docs, this is supposed to be a shrub good for hedging, but I guess it doesn’t like the shallow pot. (Also, I don’t recall seeing any red flush in the new leaves.)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe this will get more growth next spring?

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